Did you wonder what happened to us? Certainly quite a few people complained about us not giving any prizes any more!

Things changed a lot for us, and rather than simplyshut down, we decided to retrench and hibernate for a bit. We’ve had a look at what we do, and decided that we would strip a few things out (the chat function never took off), and start to add some things in, such as the “micro-mission”, which initially will be based mostly around the iPhone.

We have always tried to capture where you are, and we’ve added to that the idea of a timed mission, which closes after a set period of time. So if you are stuck in the middle of the city, and want to find the best place for a coffee, you could set a quick mission up to find out just that!

We will start to give some prizes out again, although very much Credit Crunch level stuff.

We’re very open to ideas as to what you would like to see. Be patient, though!

– Commissioner of the Month goes to jengoldacker who published a load of missions in February to do with painting various rooms in her house. We just thought we would give her US$50 as a contribution towards the cost of the paint!

– Responder of the Month goes to Tracy for her many useful responses. What can we say? Tracy is relentless in her wish to help others. We need more people like Tracy! She will receive a special prize worth $50.

3. Special grant

– The February special grant goes to belindayoung who you will all know – she has been amongst the most dedicated missioners month after month. Whether she is publishing interesting missions of her own or helping others achieve their goals, she has most certainly not received the recognition she deserves. She also closes off her missions when completed – something we wish more people would do … it’s a good way to earn more points! We hope that Belinda knows that she is appreciated by so many of our community. Our grant to Belinda is worth US$200.

What to do next …

If your mymission2 username appears above then look out for an email from us which will tell you how to claim your prize. If you haven’t yet received an email and you have checked your junk/spam folder then please make sure your email address is correctly entered into your mymission2 profile! Don’t worry – nobody will see it but we need it to be able to contact you.

– Commissioner of the Month goes to rhiannonatkin who published this mission on 29th January: Get 250 members on my Facebook group. We love this mission because it shows how people all around the world can help to achieve things and it is all about social networking. Rhiannon will receive a special prize worth $50.

– Responder of the Month goes to jacqui.tohc for her many useful responses regarding food. Being so helpful is what mymission2 is all about! Jacqui will receive a special prize worth $50.

3. Special grant

– The January special grant goes to PAG who published this mission on 11th January: Recover fully from a heart attack. PAG has been very active within mymission2 for a long time and we think it is about time that he received some recognition. We hope too that his recovery is going well. Our grant to PAG is worth US$200.

What to do next …

If your mymission2 username appears above then look out for an email from us which will tell you how to claim your prize. If you haven’t yet received an email and you have checked your junk/spam folder then please make sure your email address is correctly entered into your mymission2 profile! Don’t worry – nobody will see it but we need it to be able to contact you.

My apologies if you got 100 new mission alerts – We did change the underlying algorithm to send a few more alerts out – Got a few more than we bargained for, I’m afraid. It will slow down soon, and next week, we’ll be able to stop it going quite so mad

I’ve put in a new fix today which will hopefully improve the Facebook notification function. I also found in passing 168 missions that haven’t been properly broadcast, so the system is churning through them at the moment – Sorry if you get a few more notifications than usual over the next few hours!